Exorcism of Ignorance as a Proxy for Rational Knowledge: The Lessons of Handwriting Identification Expertise

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  1989

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  University of Pennsylvania Law Review

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  Law, Economics, History

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  DOI 10.2307/3312276
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  Semantic Scholar

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